About Gap Inc.
Our brands bridge the gaps we see in the world. Old Navy democratizes style to ensure everyone has access to quality fashion at every price point. Athleta unleashes the potential of every woman, regardless of body size, age or ethnicity. Banana Republic believes in sustainable luxury for all. And Gap inspires the world to bring individuality to modern, responsibly made essentials.
This simple idea—that we all deserve to belong, and on our own terms—is core to who we are as a company and how we make decisions. Our team is made up of thousands of people across the globe who take risks, think big, and do good for our customers, communities, and the planet. Ready to learn fast, create with audacity and lead boldly? Join our team.
About the Role
In this critical leadership role, you will be accountable for all new capabilities for our highly scaled physical and logical inventory back-end services powering Gap Inc.’s platforms (Web, allocation, order brokering, and reporting). You will be leading a high-performance engineering team practicing best-in-class DevOps and continuous delivery engineering practices.
In addition, you will be responsible for working with your Product Management, Architecture and Technical Program Management peers to build end-to-end product delivery and technology plans for this area, across all Gap Inc.’s brands and markets.
A key part of your responsibilities will include instituting the right processes and practices to ensure high availability of all your applications and services at scale, while leading your team’s Cloud-based technical roadmap. In your role, you will also lead oversight for the total cost of ownership for building, testing, and running your products in Production – ensuring on time and on budget delivery.
What You'll Do
- Accountable for ensuring overall strategy, delivering excellence and high availability for the cloud-based physical and logical inventory accuracy at Gap Inc.
- Lead product and technical roadmap planning for the group, actively collaborating with key architecture, product, operations, and program management partners.
- Successfully ensure delivery execution of large complex product initiatives consisting of multiple cross-functional/organizational Agile teams.
- Maintain overall financial oversight as part of total cost of ownership for building all your product capabilities, product support, and cloud consumption costs.
- Participate in continuous delivery improvement efforts, with modern agile, lean and design thinking practices.
- Provide leadership, mentorship, and oversight to a high-performance team of engineer managers and engineers across product delivery, technology decisions, engineering best practices and transformation.
- Evaluate business needs, research, and formulate application solutions, and make solution recommendations to Gap Tech leadership.
Who You Are
- Engineering leadership experience with managing services at high scale, preferably in a retail setting.
- Deep end-to-end technical knowledge building and running high performing, high availability applications.
- Domain expertise with inventory services, including transaction processing and complex aggregation is highly desired.
- Ability to credibly challenge technical design decisions and approaches with exceptionally talented product managers, architects, and engineers.
- Proficient and direct experience with Java, J2EE, Spring, Messaging services, API design, Cassandra Database systems and high-volume, multi-threaded microservices.
- Experience leading leaders and independent, high performing teams with demonstrated understanding of modern software development and infrastructure tools, processes, and practices including Agile Development, Cloud and DevOps.
- Experience collaborating with product and program management to build detailed product and technical roadmaps that consistently meet budget/time expectations.
- Strong executive presence and experience advising and interfacing with senior executives and business leadership on technology related issues, excellent executive-level verbal and written communication.
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college, or equivalent experience in Computer Science or related field.
Benefits at Gap Inc.
- Merchandise discount for our brands: 50% off regular-priced merchandise at Old Navy, Gap, Banana Republic and Athleta, and 30% off at Outlet for all employees.
- One of the most competitive Paid Time Off plans in the industry.
- Employees can take up to five “on the clock” hours each month to volunteer at a charity of their choice.
- Extensive 401(k) plan with company matching for contributions up to four percent of an employee’s base pay.
- Employee stock purchase plan.
- Medical, dental, vision and life insurance.
For eligible employees
Gap Inc. is an equal-opportunity employer and is committed to providing a workplace free from harassment and discrimination. We are committed to recruiting, hiring, training and promoting qualified people of all backgrounds, and make all employment decisions without regard to any protected status. We have received numerous awards for our long-held commitment to equality and will continue to foster a diverse and inclusive environment of belonging.
